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B. T. GISSEL.

ASH PAN AND SCREEN FOR FURNACES. No. 312,831. Patented Peb rl'l, 1885.

WITNESSES: INVENTOB j$4M I fW XZ 4 I S I ATTO NEEQW NlTED STATES RICHARD S. T. OISSEL, OF ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,331, dated February 17, 1885.

Application filed August 14, 1884.

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To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD S. T. Grssnn, of Elizabeth, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and 5 useful Improvements in Ash Pans and Screens forFurnaces, of which the following is-a specification.

This invention has reference to an improved portable ash pan and screen for heating and other furnaces; and it consists of an ash-pan supported on a wheeled carriage and of a reciprocating screen that is supported above the ash-pan on anti-friction bearings of the carriage. The carriage is provided with aforked and swiveled handle which carries a roller at its forked end, said roller acting as a stop for the carriage when the handle is placed at right angles to the axis of the same.

In the accompanying drawingsJTigure 1 represents a side elevation of my improved ash pan and screen for heating and other furnaces. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same; Fig. 3, a plan of the same with parts broken away.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Ain the drawings represents a wheeled carriage of suitable width and length to fit into the ash-pit of a heating or other furnace. The carriage Ais supported on three wheels, at a, of which two are arranged at the front and one at the hind part of the carriage. To the front part of the carriage is swiveled ahandle, I), having a forked lower end which carries a roller, 7), that can be turned by the handle 6 into a position at right angles to the axis of the carriage, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3, in which position the roller acts as brake or stop and prevents the carriage A from moving in either direction on the floor. On inwardly-proj ecting shoulders d d of the carriage rests an ash-pan, B, which can be readily removed from the carriage A for transferring the ashes to an ash-can or other receptacle. 5 The sides of the carriage A are raised andsupport slotted boxes e with anti-friction balls which project slightly through the slots of the boxes 0. On the anti-friction balls 6 rests a screen, 0, upon which the ashes are dumped 50 from the grate of the furnace. A fixed handle, f, is attached to the front part of the screen G, the handle being recessed to admit the attaching of ashaker. The boxes e e are provided at their outsides with vertical flanges, which serve as guides for the flange of the screen 0. When the ashes have been dumped on the screen, the same is reciprocated by the shaker while the ash-pan is in the ash-pit, after which the ash-pit doors are opened and the ash pan and screen removed by applying the shaker to the recessed handle I). The carriage A is pulled out of the ash-pit to apoint near the ash-can or other receptacle for the ashes, after which the screen is removed from its bearings and the unburned coal particles collected therein transferred to the coal bin or pail. The ash-pan is then lifted and the ashes conveyed to the ash-can, after which the carriage is moved back to the furnace and replaced in position in the ash-pit.

My improved portable ash pan and screen facilitates the screening of the ashes of heating and other furnaces and the removal of the same from the ash-pit to the ash-can, so as to render work less irksome and annoying to servants. When the ash-pan arrives near the ash-can, the handle b of the carriage is turned sidewise into a position at right angles to the axis of the carriage, whereby the roller b acts as a brake for the carriage and stops the same on the floor, so that the screen and pan can be conveniently removed therefrom. It may also be used to advantage with boiler-furnaces,and in all cases where large quantities of ashes have to be removed from the ash-pit,as there by the shoveling of the ashesis dispensed with.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. A portable ash pan and screen composed of a wheeled carriage, an ash-pan supported thereon,and a vertically-reciprocating screen supported above the ash-pan on anti-friction bearings of the carriage, substantially as set forth 2. The combination of a wheeled supporting.- carriage, an ash-pan supported on inwardlyprojecting lugs of said carriage, and a flanged screen supported on anti-friction bearings, said screen being guided between vertical flanges of said bearings, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of a wheeled carriage having inwardly-projectinglugs and anti-fric- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as tion boxes, an ash-pan, a flanged screen above my invention I have signed my name in pres- 1o sgidfash-panaang ahforked handle gwlilveled to ence of two subscribing witnesses. t e ront en 0 t e carriage an aving a 5 roller at its lower end, said roller acting as a RICHARD GISSEL' stop or brake for the carriage when it is thrown Witnesses: into a position at right angles to the axis of PAUL GOEPEL, the carriage, substantially as set forth. MARTIN PETRY. 

